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MACHINE FOR BINDING AND STAMPING CURRENCY.

(Application filed July 9, 1897.)

(No Model.)

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CHARLES S. ELLIS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNCR TO HOWVARD T.. WILLSON AND HENRY S. MERRITT, OF SAME PLACE.

MACHINE FOR BINDING AND STAMPING CURRENCY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 624,915, dated May 16, 1899.-

Application filed July 9, 1897. Serial No. 643.928. (No model.)

' zen of the United States, residin gin the city of Chicago,county of Cook, State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Machine for Binding and Stamping Currency, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to machines for binding currency and commercial paper in packages by means of strips folded around them and stamping printed characters on these strips.

The objects of my invention are, first, to provide a mechanical method for pinning or binding currency or commercial paper securely in packages, performing by machinery work which has heretofore been done by hand, and, second, to stamp in printed characters upon the paper strip infoldin g these packages at the very moment of pinning them the value of the packages, the date, and whatever other data it may be desired to have set down thereon. I accomplish these objects in the manner shown in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of the machine, showing its movable arm raised; Fig. 2, a horizontal longitudinal section showing movable arm lowered upon the package of currency or commercial paper placed in position for being pinned and stamped; Fig. 3, a top view of the machine, looking down upon it; Fig. 4, an isometrical drawing of the staple-guiding block and chopper; Fig. 5, an isometrical view of the platen, plunger, and plunger-stock; Fig.

6, a transverse section of the machine through the shaft upon which turn the cylindrical dating-rings and looking toward the left through them; Fig. 7, a detail perspective view of the front folder, uprights, and guard adapted to hold in position packages, as aforesaid, while they are being bound and stamped.

In the drawings the base of the machine is marked with the number 1. This base is preferably of metal, rectangular and open at the bottom. The number 2 marks the uprights aiiixed to this base, between which on a pivotshaft is hung amovable arm 4, having two sides and ending in a head containing a plunger and platen and the staple-guiding mechanism, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. This arm may be upheld by the spring 5, coiled about the shaft 3. Between the sides of the movable arm 4. a roll-holder or reel 6 for paper is hung upon a shaft 7, set in the arm. Through the top plate 8 of the arm-head work a plunger-stock 9, a metal'plunger 10, and a platen 11, both plunger and platen being affixed upon lower end of the stock. This plunger slides in a slot 12 and the platen in the chamber 13. The downward movement of the plunger stock is directed by the guide 14, through which the plunger-stock slides. This guide may be cast as a part of the arm 4 or may be affixed by rivets or otherwise to the upper side of the top plate 8. The spring 15, seated upon the top plate 8 and coiled about the stock 9, serves as an upward support for the plunger, plungerstock, and platen. The metal staple-guiding block 20 slides upon posts 21, which are set in' the top plate 8 and extend downward through two holes drilled in the guide. Two springs 22 are coiled around the posts, these springs being seated upon the under side of the top plate 8 at the base of the posts and bearing outwardly upon the upper face of the guide. The office of these springs is to keep the stapleguide pressed firmly down upon the package whenever the swinging arm 4 is in the position shown in Fig.2, no matter whether the package be a thick one or a thin one. The two holes through which extendthe posts 21 are larger in diameter in the lower half of the guiding-block 20 than in the upper, (see Fig. 4,) so that a nut screwed upon the lower end of each post will lodge'upon the shoulder 23, and thus prevent the spring 22 from forcing the guiding-block from its position on the guiding-posts. Instead of screwing a nut on the end of each post the posts may simply be headed by battering or otherwise.-

The staple-chopping block or chopper 19 is shown in Fig. 4c. This chopper may be cast as an integral part of the staple-guiding block 20, its face flush in the slot 12 with the face of the guiding-block, or the end of thesteelspring staple-holder 18 (shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 4) may be bolted to the guiding-block and used as a chopper. On either side of this chopper is a groove 17,through which pass the legs of the staples as they are fed from the staple-holder 18 over the chopper into the slot 12 beneath the plunger 10 ready to be cut off and driven home by a blow upon the plungercap 16. It the spring staple-holder be not bolted to the guiding-block, so that its bolted end may be used as a chopper, it may be atfixed to the top of the chopper or to its side by bolting or otherwise. The practical advantage of having the staple-holder attached to the staple-guiding block is that when so attached the fact that the staple-guiding block shifts up and down upon the posts 21 does not in the slightest interfere with the feeding of the staples through it into the slot 12. The staple-holder 18 will carrya strand of staples in the manner shown upon Fig. 2, and will feed them into the slot over the chopper automatically in position to be cut off by the descending plunger.

A knife or shear for cutting the paperdrawn from the reel 6 is shown on the drawings, Figs. 1 and 2, as consisting of a stationary block or blade of tempered steel 24, affixed to the bracket 25, (this bracket being bolted to the base-plate of the machine,) and a movable blade 26, having a handle and swinging at one end on a pin, this pin being fixed on the bracket 25. A guide 27 serves to hold close to the base-plate the paper asit is drawn from the reel 6.

The device for holding the bills or notes in position for pinning and the mechanism for folding around them the strips of paper drawn from the reel 6 and out off by the shear are shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3. Between the uprights 28, near the end of the base-plates,

- is a pin 29, upon which is hung the back folder 30. A spring'3l, coiled around the pin 29, holds this folder 30 down close to the baseplate of the machine. Farther forward on the base-plate is the spring-chamber 32. This chamber has two holes drilled partly through it and is affixed to the base-plate by bolting or otherwise in the position indicated in Fig. 2. In these holes the springs 33 are set resting against the back of the chamber and bearing outwardly against the spring-guard 34. This guard is a piece of metal having legs 35 extending backward on either side of the spring-chamber, these legs being caught behind the chamber by ret-ainingscrews or by a rod 36, inserted through them in the manner shown in Fig. 3. The spring-chamber 32 stands between two posts or uprights 37, between which on a pin 38 is hung the front folder, which consists of a plate of metal bent so as to form two lugs 39 and 40, holding positions nearly at right angles with each other.

withdrawn from the folders.

;age is withdrawn, as shown in Fig. 1.

tion shown in Fig. 2 and the legs of the lug, yielding to the pressure, are forced past the uprights 37 the legs will spring out again and catch behind the uprights, and thus keep l'ug 39, which operates reciprocally with lug 40, at a horizontal position until the package is The springguard 34 is constructed with the shoulder 41, against which the lug 39 rests after the pack- The office of this guard is to give room between the front and back folders by its forward and backward play for packages of difierent widths and at the same time to assist the folders in causing the paper strips by which the packages are bound to be folded neatly and tightly around them.

Midway between the folders is the plate 42, on which may be set raised letters or type, showing the name of the bank or businesshouse using the machine. On either side of this plate is an open rectangular space in the base-plate, and below it, within the base, are the cylinder 43 and the cylindrical rings 51, 53, 55, and 57. The cylinder 43 is fixed upon the shaft or pin 44 and is operated by means of a turning head 45, which is also fixed to the pin 44. The cylindrical rings 51, 53, 55, and 57 are similarly connected with the turning heads 52, 54, 56, and 58, being fixed on cylindrical tubes connecting the cylindrical rings and these turning heads. These rings revolve upon shaft 59, (shown in Fig. 6,) the said shaft directly supporting the rings 53 55, with their heads 54 and 56, while cylindrical tubes connecting the ring 51 with its turning head 52 and the ring 57 with its turning head 58 bear upon the cylindrical tube connecting the ring 53 with its turning head 54 and upon that connecting ring 55 with its turning head 56, all as shown in Fig. 6. Two nuts 60, screwed on the end of the shaft 59, prevent it from shifting and at the same time permit the turning heads to be easily turned to the position desired. each of the cylindrical rings are constructed with a smaller ratcheted ring 46 upon its side, as shown in Fig. 2. In these ratchets work dogs 47, which are held down upon the ratchets by steel springs 49, affixed to the shaft 50. The dogs which work on these ratchets all extend from the shaft 48. The office of these ratchets, dogs, and springs is that the cylindrical rings and cylinder when once set for a certain sum or date may be kept firmly in position.

Upon the face of the cylinder 43 at intervals may be set raised figures or type denoting certain sums of money. On the cylindrical face of the turning head may be set like figures in positions corresponding to the positions of the figures on the cylinder. On the face of the cylindrical ring 51 may be set at intervals raised letters or type denoting the months of the year, on the rings 53 and 55 raised figures from O to 9 to show the days of the month, and on ring 57 figures The cylinder 45 and showing the calendar year. On the turning heads 52, 54, 56, and 58 like letters and figures may be set corresponding to the positions of the letters and figures on the cylindrical rings. By means of these turning heads the machine may thus be set for any sum noted 011 cylinder 43 and for any date.

The numbers 61 and 64 are reels huh g within the metallic base of the machine 011 the pins or shafts 63 and 65. These reels are for the reception of the ribbon 66, which runs from the reel 61 up through the opening 68, over the cylinder 43, the plate 42, and the cylindrical rings, and down through the opening 67 to the reel 64. The reel 64 is turned very slightly to the right with each downward swing of the arm 4 by means of the mechanism shown in Fig. 2, where 69 is a downward extension of one side of the arm 4 through the base of the machine. From the end of this extension and connected with it by a pivot 71 a rod runs backward toward the reel 64 through the guiding-support 72. This rod is constructed with the hook 73 at its free end. On the side of the reel 64 is a ratcl1et-ring 74, and on the teeth of this ratchet a hook 73 is caught. With each downward swing of the movable arm 4 the extension 69 moves forward and away from the reel 64, pulling with it a rod which, operating on the ratchet through the hook 73,

causes the reel to move forward a trifle, and

thus wind upon it the ribbon. When the movable arm 4is raised again, the rod 7 O, with its hook 73, will slide backward a short distance and again catch on one of the teeth of the ratchet ready to pull it forward when the arm 4 shall be once more lowered. When the ribbon is nearly all wound upon the reel 64, the operator may rewind it upon the reel 61 by first releasing the hook 73 and then turning the handle 62, attached to the shaft upon which the reel 61 is hung.

To operate this machine, the roll of paper is first placed upon the reel 6. The paper is drawn under the guide 27 and between the blades of the knife or shear, thence over the lug 39, the cylindrical rings,the plate, the cylinder, and the back folder 30, and downward until the end of the strip is even with the gage-line 75 on the base of the machine. The package designed to be bound and stamped is then placed upon the strip of paper in the position shown in Fig. 2,with one side of the package placed under the back folder 30 and the other side resting upon the lug 40. The pressure of the bills under the back folder 30 will cause the strip to be folded over from the gage-line 75 and to lie flat upon the top of the package. The paper. is then cut off at the knife by a downward stroke of the blade 26. By pressing the package down upon the lug 40 the lug 39 will then cause the severed end of the strip to be folded over upon the top of package. The legs of the lug 40 will pass behind the posts 37 and will cause the folder to remain in the position .then placed upon the cap 16 and the movable arm 4 brought down to the position shown in Fig. 2, so that the platen 11 and staple-guiding block 20 will rest upon the strip drawn over the package. The staple-guiding block 20 will shift upon the posts 21, accommodating itself to the thickness of the package.

The blow upon the cap 16 will cause the plunger 10 to descend and drive the pin or staple which rests in the slot 12 through the paper strip and a short distance into the package in such a manner that the ends of the pin or staple will not turn toward each other and clench in or under the package. of the same stroke upon the cap 16 and by the resulting pressure of the platen upon the package the date, the amount of currency in the package, and such data as may be contained in the figures or letters on the plate 42 are printed upon paper strip on the reverse side of package through the aid of the ribbon. The platen serves the oifice of keeping the package in position, so that the staples may be easily and firmly driven home by the plunger, and the further office of stamping, by the force of its impact, the various figures and characters upon the strip infolding the package. When the pressure upon the cap is removed, the movable arm 4 and all its parts will be carried upward again by the spring 5,and the operation of the ribbon-shifting mechanism, as described above, will, with a downward movement of the arm, cause the ribbon to move slightly toward and around the reel 64, so that the next succeedingimpression of the type upon the ribbon will be at other and new points of contact. A new pin or staple will be fed from the staple-holder by gravity or pressure into slot 12 below the plunger 10 the instant the plunger clears the upper side of the chopper 19, where the staple-holder enters the staple-guiding block 20. The package, bound and stamped, may then be removed. In removing it the front folder will reassume the position shown in Fig. 1, with the lug 39 nearly at a perpendicular. The machine is then ready to repeat the operation.

In this machine instead of using a back folder of the design shown in the drawings a device like that used herein for a front fold er may be used.

By my invention the pinning of currency in packages by handand the separate writing By the force IIO or stamping of the amount and other desired uniformly and neatly pinned and printed and the pins or staples lie absolutely flat when driven into the Wrapper.

The spring staple holder or feed and the continuous or connected strand of staples described herein and shown in Figs. 1 and 2 are not claimed; but

What I do claim is 1. The combination of a shifting stapleguiding block, as 20, and chopper as 19, with a reciprocating plunger as 10 working through the block.

2. The combination of a shifting stapleguiding block and chopper with a plunger, as 10, working through the block and a platen, as 11, operating in connection with the said plunger in manner substantiallyas described.

3. In a machine for binding currency and commercial paper in packages and stamping them, the combination of a staple or pin inserting mechanism, with a type-bearing cylinder, cylindrical rings and plate, and a ribbon for printing from them, and also with a platen for impressing the characters of the type upon a package or strip of paper, all substantially as described.

4. In a machine for binding currency and commercial paper in packages and stamping them, the combination of a staple-inserting mechanism with a type-bearing cylinder, cylindrical rings and plate, an ink-ribbon and its automatic shifting device, and a platen for impressing the characters of the type upon a package or strip of paper, and also with a folding mechanism, substantially as described.

5. In a machine for binding currency and commercial paper in packages, the combination of a shifting staple-guiding block as 20, having holes extending through it and sliding on posts as 21, a chopping-block as 19, a plunger as 10,working through the staple-guiding block, a platen as 11, platen and plunger being attached to each other, and a single plunger-stock for platen and plunger, the said platen and plunger operating to hold packages firmly down upon a base and to drive staples into them, all substantially as described. 4

6. In a machine for binding currency and commercial paper in packages the combination of a shifting staple-guiding block as 20, sliding on posts as 21, a chopping-block as 19, a staple holder or feed permanently attached to the chopping-block and shifting with it, a

plunger as 10, working through the stapleguiding block, a platen as 11, platen and plunger being attached to each other, and a single plunger-stock for platen and plunger, the said platen and plunger operating to hold packages firmly down upon a base and to drive staples into them, all substantially as described.

7. In a machine for binding currency and commercial paper in packages the combination of a shifting staple-guiding block as 20, having holes extending through it and sliding on posts as 21, a chopping-block as 19, a plunger as lO,working through the staple-guiding block, a platen as 11, platen and plunger being attached tov each other, a single plungerstock for platen and plunger, the said platen and plunger operatin g to hold packages firmly down upon a base and to drive staples into them, a back folder as 30, a front folder having lugs as 39 and 40, a spring-chamber, springs and spring-guard as 34, erected upon a base, all substantially as described.

8. In a machine for binding currency and commercial paper in packages and stamping them, the combination of a staple-guiding block, sliding on posts, a chopping-block, a staple holder or feed, permanently attached thereto and shifting with it, a plunger, a platen, plunger and platen being attached to each other, a single plunger-stock for both platen and plunger, the folding mechanism, spring-chamber, springs, and spring-guard, with an ink-ribbon and an automatic shifting device for operating it, the said shifting device consisting of two reels, a ratchet as 74, a movable arm, a lever extending from the movable arm, a rod extending from the lever, a

hook at the end of the rod arranged to engage the ratchet, and also with a type-bearing cylinder, cylindrical rings and plate, designed to act in connection with platen and ink-ribbon in impressing printed characters upon a package or strip of paper, all substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CIIAS. S. ELLIS.

WVitnesses:

ERNEST B. HEROLD, WM. B. MOULTON. 

